Sunday, April 3, 2016

iDeclare the Truth

I
have sworn to do, and stood firmly on two things
(amidst my Type A list of many things): 1) Vote for the pretentious and
obnoxious Donald Trump, if
he were the last man on earth, who, I strongly doubt would survive among women—given
his obvious sexism; and, 2) purchase no
other smartphone than a BlackBerry. But, when an unexpected paradigm shift
threatened the latter, I was forced to consider an option as unimaginable as
the former.My
prolonged relationship with Blackberry has parlayed from the BlackBerry1700, introduced in 2003, to the BlackBerryQ10, released in 2013. Blackberry phones were designed to concentrate
on wireless communication (email, mobile telephone and text messaging), which
has satisfied my wireless consumerism for over 10 years. So, the iDea of their competitors
capturing my iNterest with devices designed to offer an array of entertainment,
while iNadvertently creating a host of petty crimes, was as iMpossible as my
voting for Donald Trump. But, in August 2013, when BlackBerry announced its
intention to sell the company due to increasingly unfavorable financial
position and competition in the mobile industry, I feared the worst.

8 comments:

I held out and held onto my BlackBerry Bold until 2014. Prior to that, I could see no conceivable way that I could communicate without keys. Then there was the day in the elevator, when an older neighbor spotted it in my hands. "Looks like you have a phone that isn't very smart," he laughed.

He was right. I couldn't even do online banking on my BlackBerry, which forced me to go to the bank to deposit checks. Add to that, my mobile credit card processing company, Intuit, had to search in a dusty bin to find the right adapter so that I could process book sales. I finally I ran out of patience when Research in Motion kept promising but never delivering new models. When they finally returned to market, I didn't even look up from my iPhone.

No shame in my game. There shouldn't be any in yours, either. We didn't fail. BlackBerry failed its loyal fans. They were SO long catching up that the switch to the Android platform was too little too late. We'd all become accustomed to something smarter and faster than Research (Barely) in Motion.

Ha! Thanks for the endorsement, and the tale of your faulty Research (barely) in Motion. (Hilarious!) You are absolutely right about the apps factor. RIMs failed in that department, while technology kept growing.

Having the QWERTY is what kept me with BlackBerry. I could not fathom typing lengthy emails and articles on a touch screen, but, I am told I will adjust quite comfortably.

My husband is on your side, Denrique. Even after he was not able to get any support from our carrier (T-Mobile) he refused to give in. After begging and pleading to no avail and his having numerous missed and un-retrievable communications, I decided to give him a smartphone for his birthday. Now he's a convert, but it took me a week to get him to the store to get it activated and the blackberry disconnected!

Ha! I feel his pain, Melaine. That is the effect Blackberry has/had on Blackberry carriers, a level of devotion that is unmatched to any other wireless device. But, they needed to put their Research In Motion to keep up with their competitors and the everchanging technology trends.

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Professional writer, journalist, political satirist, and social commentator Denrique Preudhomme delivers writing appeal to a variety of readers.
She is the author of a book of thought-provoking social and political articles, The Undisguised Truth, a book of riveting short fiction, Stranger Than Fiction and a book of moving poems, Reflections of Realism. She is the recipient of the Urban Spectrum Newspaper National Writers Award, and is profiled in Marquis Who’s Who in America®. She is currently writing her next book, a thriller titled Deception is Reality.
Denrique is a foreign scholar in the field of Creative Arts and the owner of The Creative Writer, a professional writing services company based in Washington, DC.